Pascal vd Heiden (CodeImp)

Pascal van der Heiden (also known as CodeImp or Gherkin) born on July 15, 1982, is a regular in the Doom community, a developer of notable Doom supporting applications and resource maintainer of Doomworld. For his living, he works at Nearfield Instruments BV. Heiden is the creator of the software and services featured at CodeImp, which is his trademark for his personal projects and nickname in the Doom community.

Body of work
He has developed three major Doom related products:
 * Doom Connector - a service for online Doom multiplayer with various Doom source ports. Heiden designed and developed this service. This product and support was discontinued on May 30, 2005.
 * Doom Builder - a map editor for Doom and various Doom source ports. In August 2003, Heiden started this project as a basic map editor. Later he introduced 3D Mode editing in the Doom editing scene, as popularised by the Duke Nukem 3D editor. In January 2008 he announced that the development of Doom Builder 2 (a more high-end rewrite of this tool) had begun.
 * Doom Builder 2 - a map editor that was on May 14, 2009.